On May 9 a night assault, supported by enfilade fire, was delivered
on the enemy's trenches in front of Quinn's Post. The trenches were
carried at the point of the bayonet, troops established in them, and
reinforcements sent up.
At dawn on May 10 a strong counter-attack forced our troops to
evacuate the trenches and fall back on Quinn's Post. In opposing this
counter-attack our guns did great execution, as we discovered later
from a Turkish officer's diary that two Turkish regiments on this date
lost 600 killed and 2,000 wounded.
On the night of May 14-15 a sortie was made from Quinn's Post with the
object of filling in Turkish trenches in which bomb-throwers were
active. The sortie, which cost us some seventy casualties, was not
successful.
On May 14 Lieutenant-General Sir W. R. Birdwood was slightly wounded,
but, I am glad to say, he was not obliged to relinquish the command of
his Corps.